Posted on 10/19/2005 4:21:21 AM PDT by Jay777
SAN FRANCISCO, October 18 (OneWorld) - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. governments failure to submit its own report.
The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews nations compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will complete its session on October 24.
But for the third time since ratifying the treaty in 1992, the United States has failed to submit its five-year report to the committee on U.S. violations of the treaty.
The treaty, which entered into force in 1976 and has been signed by 155 countries, outlaws torture or degrading treatment, protects self-determination, and ensures that all people everywhere are treated within the law.
Without a U.S. report, the committee usually skips over discussions of U.S. compliance.
But anticipating an absent U.S. report, the Human Rights Committee took precautions this year.
Last August, the committee sent a letter to a number of U.S.-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the World Organization for Human Rights USA, requesting reports on U.S. transgressions of the treaty, to be used in case the U.S. itself failed to report.
Specifically, the committees letter requested documentation relating to, the fight against terrorism following the events of 11 September 2001 and notably the implications of the Patriot Act on nationals as well as non-nationals; and problems relating to the legal status and treatment of persons detained in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Iraq, and other places of detention outside the USA.
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"Suggested Added Advisory, Caligula: "ODERINT DUM METUANT" - Let them hate, so long as they fear."
I'll buy motto too, mindful that Caligula was an insane tyrant.
English for "Das viertal Reich".
Please send the annual dues billing to the ACLU and the other NGOs that you requested to provide data on the US. It seems they have decided to usurp the power of the USA and therefore they have assumed, voluntarily, the financial obligations as well.
Thank you very much.
U S Citizens
LOL Mrs Magslinger is not pleased with you. She had been sleeping in until I read your post.
I've got a new thought!
Perhaps it is time for the US to get out of the UN, and abolish it from our soil!
"But for the third time since ratifying the treaty in 1992, the United States has failed to submit its five-year report to the committee on U.S. violations of the treaty"
Does this mean that the sainted Clinton Administration also failed to comply?
Oh dear. They must have had a good reason. Like not wanting to reveal they dropped shrapnel, not bombs, on the civilian population of Belgrade?
Amen to that. I'm sick and tired of the U.S. getting blamed for all the world's problems.
"The graphic you posted would apply to Amnesty International reports on U.S. Human Rights violations."
Amen to that. I'm sick and tired of the U.S. getting blamed for all the world's problems.
*I say "shove it" to the international commune, the EU, the United Nations, Amnesty International, and other anti-American entities such as the Democrat party, U.S. MEDIA, et al. I'd swear to enjoy the predictable ad hominems:
Xenophobe! Isolationist! Racist! Bigot! Diversity-phobe.
AND, in Hillary Clinton's own words to her French cultish fans, "Americans are selfish."
Oh Yes, let's give oversight of the U.S. Military over to the U.N. to prosecute our troops, after all "The US Army is broken and warn out". This will relieve me of my oversight duties and all me to vote against more proposals that I make.
/Sarcasm off
Oh Yes, let's give oversight of the U.S. Military over to the U.N. to prosecute our troops, after all "The US Army is broken and warn out". This will relieve me of my oversight duties and allow me to vote against more proposals that I make. /Sarcasm off
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